It would be great to nurture the gifts of either gender while encouraging the WE without gender. We clean, work, do dishes, support, nurture together to survive well. When women starting have more freedoms they enthusiastically grabbed hold but I think they thought men would change too instead of working and doing all the home gender roles too. That is slowly improving SOME. The more we can see ourselves as pieces of a puzzle... Unique but a vital part of the whole and quit focusing on differences the better our world will be. IMO
Thanks, Sandy. I agree - seeing our commonalities is really important and often emphasizing difference can divide. I think I hear you calling for another aspect of holding things together: our separate natures and our common task.
“Surely there is a way to hold these two things together: the recognition of characteristic tendencies for men and women and the recognition and acceptance of exceptions.”
It would be great to nurture the gifts of either gender while encouraging the WE without gender. We clean, work, do dishes, support, nurture together to survive well. When women starting have more freedoms they enthusiastically grabbed hold but I think they thought men would change too instead of working and doing all the home gender roles too. That is slowly improving SOME. The more we can see ourselves as pieces of a puzzle... Unique but a vital part of the whole and quit focusing on differences the better our world will be. IMO
Thanks, Sandy. I agree - seeing our commonalities is really important and often emphasizing difference can divide. I think I hear you calling for another aspect of holding things together: our separate natures and our common task.
I liked this line in particular
“Surely there is a way to hold these two things together: the recognition of characteristic tendencies for men and women and the recognition and acceptance of exceptions.”